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Neglected to Death
Florida was among the first to regulate assisted living and to adopt a Bill of Rights for patients. The investigation found that regulators are failing to protect some residents and uncovered dozens of questionable deaths.
Tags: assisted living; negligence; patients
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Hillsborough County School District Land Investigation
The ninth largest U.S. school district, Hillsborough County (FL), in 2006 was "growing fast enough to fill five new schools" per year. To meet the demand, Hillsborough county used the services of 4 private real estate brokers, without using bids, in violation of its own regulations. Three of the four brokers have records of criminal, legal and financial problems. Some of those brokers simultaneously represented the sellers, or flipped the land themselves, resulting in land purchases often made substantially above appraisal values. Reporters from the St. Petersburg Times documented swampland purchases, and school sites surrounded by the homes of sexual predators.
Tags: land; school board; school district superintendent; real estate brokers; realtors; swampland; bidding practices; state FOI; land flipping; rezoning applications; condemnation; assessments; appraisals; financial investigations; land records; wetland maps; FBI investigation; Florida Department of Law Enforcement; Excel; Matthew B. Cox; Chester B. Luney; Fred Edmister; National Realty Associates; school planning; Wilson-Miller; Florida Real Estate Commission; 2606 East Caracus Land Trust; Laurence E. Fuentes; Fuentes and Kreischer Title Co.; Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation
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Terror Watch
The Terror Watch columns investigated the inner workings of the Bush administration's War on Terror.
Tags: terrorism; War on Terror; George W. Bush; John Bolton; domestic defense; Judith Miller; FBI; Robert Mueller; Senate Intelligence Committee
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Wrongdoing in Wilmer-Hutchins
Using a hidden camera and the unpaid help of a mold remediation expert, reporters at KDFW exposed severe problems with the Wilmer-Hutchins district high school. News cameras also caught the district using illegal immigrants instead of mold remediation specialists to repair building problems. The investigation also lead to the discovery of mismanagement and fraud in the school district's leadership and its financial records. As a result of this report, a state education agency audit followed, along with investigations by the FBI, IRS, U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour division, and the Federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Throughout the investigation, district officials denied any wrongdoing, refused to hand over documents, and were eventually charged with tampering with evidence in the federal investigations.
Tags: standardized testing; bonds; mismanagement of funds; Wilmer-Hutchins school district
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Black and blue- Thwarting gangs, bustin' heads in Northwest Pasadena
The Pasadena Weekly investigates the excessive use of force by the police while arrested three teens engaged in a street brawl. The investigation reveals stark contradictions between police reports and eye witness accounts. Also, the eight police reports do not match with each other. For example, one of the arrested teens was charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon although there was no sign of a weapon at the scene or mentioned in any of the police reports.
Tags: El Sereno Ave; Michael Miller; Carlton Crayton; Joe Brown
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World News Tonight/Good Morning America "USS Cole"
"Each of these stories was reported, shot and edited on site in Aden, Yemen under the ever-watchful eye of Yemeni authorities. There was never a time that a 'minder' from the Yemeni Political Police was not assigned to monitor our every movement and prevent our access to investigators and crime scenes. ... Yet despite these roadblocks we were able to elude our minder and gain exclusive access to both of the safe houses the bombers allegedly used to carry out their suicide attack as well as the dock where authorities believe the terrorists launched their bomb-laden boat."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; terrorism; USS Cole; bombing